CrewAI
Role-playing agents working as a crew.
FreemiumCPU-capable
Actually FreeNo SignupOpen SourceWatermark-Free
Agno
High-performance multimodal agents.
FreemiumCPU-capableLocal or cloud
Actually FreeNo SignupOpen SourceWatermark-FreeHobbyist-FriendlyAPI
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Hardware requirements
Local or cloud · No GPU
Min VRAM
None
Rec. VRAM
None
Min RAM
4 GB
Rec. RAM
8 GB
Disk
2 GB
GPU class
No GPU
Apple Silicon ✓CPU-Capable
Negligible local footprint. GPU only if running a local multimodal model.
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What is Agno?
Agno (formerly Phidata) is a Python framework for building multimodal agents with memory, knowledge, and tools. Notable for being unusually fast (~3μs agent instantiation, ~6.5KB RAM) thanks to a tight runtime, and for first-class support for image, audio, and video I/O — not just text.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Genuinely fast agent runtime — useful at scale
- First-class multimodal: image/audio/video in and out
- Built-in memory, knowledge base (RAG), and tool integrations
- Clean, opinionated Python API
Cons
- Smaller community than CrewAI / LangGraph
- Recent rebrand from Phidata may confuse search results
What's actually free?
OSS framework free; Agno Cloud has free tier with paid plans.
✓ Actually FreeNo SignupOpen SourceWatermark-Free
